Swedish communication theorist born in Liberia. Working with design, education and writing to support human rights in tech. Decades of digital experience and a deep concern for universal wellbeing.
Attempts to classify people into intelligence categories has been going on for many hundreds of years, but none have perhaps proven as prevalent as the intelligence quotient (IQ). The origins of IQ can be traced back to a 1905 test designed by French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon to...
I'm confident that in the future it will be incomprehensible how elected politicians and governments decided that Instagram was the best place to make official statements about national security. What was Instagram? "Was it like a news channel?" "No, it was a photo sharing site....
When humans adapt to technology they add obstacles to access content.
DuckDuckGo can transfer your query to many thousands of different, subject-specific online search engines.
Some tasks that are being handed over to automation should arguably never have been tasks in the first place. Or should at least be revised regularly. But instead of questioning and reinventing tasks, many will now be automated to run perpetually. And with no human involved, why would someone then...
When we can no longer control where our face appears, what happens to our perception of identity?
Computations will “estimate” your aim, tend to miss the nail and push for a different design. Often unnoticeably.
Let's talk about harm caused by humans implementing AI.
By understanding the challenges and opportunities involved when humans communicate with machines, you can anticipate and prevent undesirable behaviors and create more trustworthy systems.